Jason Hwang Profile

Jason Hwang, M.D., M.B.A. is an internal medicine physician who is co-founder and chief medical officer of Icebreaker Health (Lemonaid Health), a California-based health care startup that is transforming primary care by delivering services via smartphone app. As a speaker, he blends his medical experience, business education, and technological advances, showcasing the exciting range of innovation occurring in the health care industry today along with a sneak peak of what will be possible tomorrow.

Dr. Hwang previously co-founded and was the Executive Director of Healthcare at Innosight Institute (now renamed the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation), a non-profit social innovation think tank that is driving the reinvention of the health care industry, making it more accessible and user-friendly. Dr. Hwang coauthored The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Healthcare with Professor Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard Business School and the late Jerome H. Grossman of Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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Jason Hwang, M.D., M.B.A. is an internal medicine physician and Executive Director of Healthcare at Innosight Institute, a non-profit social innovation think tank based in Mountain View, CA. Together with Professor Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard Business School and the late Jerome H. Grossman of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, he is co-author of

The Innovator′s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

(McGraw-Hill, January 2009), the American College of Healthcare Executives 2010 Book of the Year.

Previously, Dr. Hwang taught as chief resident and clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine, where he received multiple recognitions for his clinical work. He has also served as a clinician with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California.

Jason received his doctorate from the University of Michigan, residency training at the University of California, Irvine, and his masters of business administration from Harvard Business School.

Jason Hwang Speaking Videos

Keynote Speech

Dr. Jason Hwang discusses how we can attain affordable healthcare for everyone by applying disruptive innovation to the medical sector. For sometime now cycles of disruptive innovation have been rampant in the business world; today we see this in the form of small start-ups creating a product that enables people to do something for themselves instead of paying an “expert” to do it for them. This innovation renders larger companies who were once experts in providing that service, obsolete.

In the case of medicine, Dr. Hwang explores why disruptive technologies have been slow to reinvent healthcare and what can be done to remedy the problem. Surveying the various reasons often cited as the cause of healthcare’s woes (costly technology, insurance agencies, lawyers), he admits, “None of these reasons never really seemed right to me…There had to be something deeper and more systemic going on, and it just felt like we were misdiagnosing what was happening.”

Jason Hwang: Keynote

Dr. Jason Hwang shares how frustration in his clinical work drove him to study innovation and become one of the biggest shakers in the healthcare industry. Tired of only having a few minutes to “patch up his patients,” he was convinced that there must be a better way to deliver healthcare and give patients the attention that they truly need and deserve.

Using the lessons he’s learned from Harvard Business School legend Clayton Christensen, Dr. Hwang examines how health professionals and patients can take some tips from other industries and generate disruptive innovation to “democratize health care.”

Jason Hwang - Disruptive Innovation

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Jason Hwang - Disruptive Innovation

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Jason Hwang's Speech Descriptions

Dr. Jason Hwang shares his groundbreaking research into disruptive innovation, which has transformed many industries and can do the same for health care. He describes how new medical technologies have fueled the transition from intuitive to precision medicine, allowing previously complex disorders to be diagnosed precisely and treated with predictably effective therapies.

When these innovations are integrated into new business systems, they will spearhead vital reforms in the healthcare industry, offering solutions to the core problems currently crippling the nation′s healthcare system: skyrocketing costs and the lack of access to quality medical care.

The basic elements of Dr. Hwang′s presentations cover:

Description of disruptive innovation and applying the lessons of innovation from other industries to health care

The role of precision (aka "personalized") medicine as the technological enabler of disruption in health care

Business model innovation: the different types of business models and how they apply to health care

Analysis of the unsustainable business model of today′s hospital and what can be done

Analysis of the business model of the physician′s practice and the rise of retail clinics

Establishing a new value network in health care to disrupt the existing one, and who can lead the charge

Books by Jason Hwang:

The Innovator′s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
“Clear, entertaining, and provocative, The Innovator′s Prescription should be read by anyone who cares about improving the health and health care of all.”
Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey,
President and CEO,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

“Comprehensive in its vision, astute in its diagnosis, and clear in its guidance, The Innovator′s Prescription offers strong medicine for a health care system that is far from well.”
Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg,
President,
Institute of Medicine

“A wealth of insights—with new ideas and revelations in every chapter. Read it, and you will be armed with solid ideas for making health care better.”
George Halvorson,
Chairman and CEO,
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

“The Innovator′s Prescription is an important and timely contribution to the national debate on health system reform. We would do well to consider it carefully.”
Tom Daschle,
former Senate Majority Leader
and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress